sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full
You would got the error as below
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: ros-kinetic-desktop-full :
Depends: ros-kinetic-desktop but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-kinetic-perception but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-kinetic-simulators but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
How to solve this error?
If you trace the error you might found it is caused by the library libpng-dev, it depends on the library libpng12-0(1.2.54-1ubuntu1) while the default installation in Ubuntu 16.04 is libpng12-0(1.2.54-1ubuntuk1), it is the root cause.
So, use the following command to install the right libpng12-0.
sudo apt-get install libpng12-0=1.2.54-1ubuntu1
Then
sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full
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